Rachel Fike

Rachel L. Fike has been a practicing restorative justice facilitator since 2016. She worked in the Restorative Justice Program at CU Boulder for over 5 years where she supported the program's case management, referral relationships, pre-conferencing, facilitation, education & training, process innovation, community partnerships, and student employees. In this work, one of the components she found most rewarding was supporting student interns and employees in their own restorative practice and leadership development. In the context of higher education, Rachel led dozens of restorative justice facilitator trainings and facilitated hundreds of community-building circles and restorative justice dialogues.

 

Supporting the wider restorative justice movement has been an important way that Rachel has engaged with the work. Since 2019, Rachel has served on the Colorado Coalition for Restorative Justice Practices (CCRJP) Board of Directors in various capacities to support state-wide best practices, legislation, and program funding.

 

Rachel holds an MA in Communication Studies and a professional certificate in Restorative Justice & Leadership Studies from the University of San Diego. She has trained under Kay Pranis at Eastern Mennonite University in Circle Processes, Lynn Lee of the Pikes Peak Restorative Justice Council in High-Impact Dialogues, and is a trained Mediator.

Outside of her work lecturing in the PACS program, Rachel founded Marigold Dialogue Solutions where she currently contracts with companies and organizations seeking restorative solutions. Currently, Rachel is working with a larger team to address institutional harm in a faith-based context and is leading restorative culture-building processes at for-profit entities. What keeps her going in this work are the relational dimensions of it, and being able to learn from and be inspired by all the people and stories this work brings into her life.